Resources

Reports

You might find some of these reports useful. Some reports are held as PDF documents within the site and others link to other sites.

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The Foundation Center and Council on Foundations
The question of whether a foundation should exist forever (in perpetuity) by building up an endowment and distributing only the interest, or should ‘spend down’ by spending both capital and...
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Arts & Business
This report contains the findings of a study into the motivations of individual supporters of the arts; both donors and recipient organizations were surveyed between November 2008 and March 2009...
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Charities Aid Foundation
This report presents the findings of a survey conducted by Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Research, into what the general public and CAF individual customers think charities could do differently to...
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The Social Investment Consultancy
In January 2010, the Social Investment Consultancy (TSIC) polled approximately 500 high net worth individuals and found that they were not only keen to support revenue generating activities, but were...
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Charities Aid Foundation
This research surveys giving trends on Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) appeals for four major natural disasters – the Asian tsunami in 2004, the Burmese cyclone in 2008, the Asia-Pacific cluster...